A federal agency has approved a set of proposals to build a new natural gas pipeline system that will span the width of Mississippi.
The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission announced the approval Friday, reasoning that the new infrastructure would serve a need for additional gas transportation in the southeastern United States. The decision came despite protests from environmental groups and landowners in the impacted states, which also include Alabama and Georgia.
The new pipeline, a joint project between Tennessee Gas Pipeline Co. and Southern Natural Gas Co., will take gas from an existing network and send it from Greenville across Mississippi to Butler, Alabama. The line will go through Washington, Humphreys, Holmes, Attala, Leake, Neshoba, Newton, Lauderdale and Clarke counties. New compressor stations will also be built in Humphreys, Attala and Lauderdale counties.
The 206 miles of new pipeline will provide up to 1.5 billion cubic feet a day of added transportation capacity, according to FERC. The $1.7-billion project is set to create 750 temporary jobs and 15 permanent positions, according to Kinder Morgan, the applicants’ parent company.
Credit: The Federal Energy Regulatory CommissionEnvironmental groups, including in Mississippi, expressed concern over the more than 2,000 water bodies the pipeline’s route crosses, as well as surrounding wildlife habitat and air quality. The Mississippi Band of Choctaw Indians, whose reservation in Neshoba County is adjacent to the pipeline’s route, said it received limited consultation over the proposal and told Mississippi Today it didn’t think there was enough consideration of impacts to historical artifacts.
“The pipeline would split my property, and I do not believe the company has offered fair options for landowners other than a one-time payment,” Trevor Langston, a Leake County property owner, wrote in a recent comment submitted to FERC. “That payment does not adequately account for the long-term loss of use, value, and impact to the property over the years.
“This land has been passed down through my family, and we do not wish to lose it to a gas line.”
FERC, the federal body in charge of regulating interstate transport of energy sources, such as natural gas, said the pipeline’s route largely overlaps with or is near existing rights-of-way. The commission, in the July 31 order, wrote that the companies “have taken appropriate steps to minimize adverse economic impacts on landowners and surrounding communities affected by the” pipeline project.
“The Commission finds that there is no basis to conclude that property sales, demand, and development decisions would be significantly impacted on land surrounding proposed project facilities,” FERC wrote. “As for use and enjoyment of property, we find that Applicants’ route design, co-location, as well as the mitigation measures prescribed in this order adequately address these impacts.”
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